If there’s one thing community managers fear the most, it’d have to be having their communities vanish. This is one of many risks that community managers face when they host their communities on platforms they don’t own, such as Facebook.

Since the unravelling of #DeleteFacebook, community managers who host their communities on the platform have been exponentially searching the internet for alternatives to decrease risks of vanishing, data leaking, and uncertainty of the future of the platform.